The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1887-12-18
HOW TO GROW OLD.
A Clean Mind In a Clean Body VIII Defy
the Ravages Of Time.

angelic innocence of infancy as intelli-
gence awakens in the infant mind and
experience hardens the infant heart flies
back to the angels. It is not a continu-
GUS earthly possession. The struggle for
life in this joyful world stamps its wicked
impress alike upon our countenances and
our characters. But there are people
who are wickeder than they appear to
be, and there are others who are not so
wicked as they look. Our inward and
our outward semblance do not keep an
even pace so that the mind of a man
may be surely indicated by his appear
ance. Some of us may have easy fortune
and bad health. Others may have lives
of hardship and be blessed with good
health and merry hearts. A rich man
loaded with dyspepsia as well as gold
and gear may be old and sour and mis-
anthropic at the age of forty, while his
coachman, blessed with content and a
good digestion, will look cherry, COM
Portable and serene above the age of
sixty. As life of ease and luxury offers
no guarantee against wrinkles and gray
hairs, and as a life of labor and hard
knocks does not surely bring on prema-
ture decrepitude, there is left open field
of inquiry into the method of keeping
Father Time on his good behavior, so
that his ravages shall be kept undisclosed
as long as possible.
There are as many ways of preserving
youthful appearance as there are men
and women who try to do it. One gen.
tleman of the writer's acquaintance who
is going gayly through his Cos, and who
looks to be still in his 40s, ascribes his
wonderful preservation to the constant
use of the Turkish bath. Unquestion-
ably he has hit upon one of the grand
secrets of juvenility. 1t is proyerbial
that cleanliness is next to Rodliness, but
a clean skin and a clean shirt tends also
to calm the temper and promote bodily
ease. Is it going too far to say that a
man or woman freshly bathed and cleanly
clothed is less likely to perpetrate any
form of dishonesty than one not so
cleansed and so attired? The writer
thinks not. In support of this theory
there comes freshly to the writer's mind
the case of a man, the pink of neatness-
''the glass of fashion and the mold of
form"-who fell into the habit of peri
odical and protracted sprees. For days
before the beginning of a debauch his
close friends could note a carelessnesS in
his dress, an omission of his daily bath.
By this sign they learned to know when
an outbreak was imminent. His de-
bauch might last for DAYS or weeks, dur
ing which time he would never change
his clothing. Suddenly he would cry a
halt, and, while still In state of intoxi-
cation yerging upon oblivion, would
bathe, shave, shampoo and array him
self in his best, and from that moment
would again be a gentleman until an
other erratic period drew near. Who
shall say that if by some occult means
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to his habitual cleanliness and tidiness
of person he would have fallen from
grace? Not that the soiled linen was the
cause of the Generalization in the be-
ginning. but that the clean linen would
have helped him to combat 1t more sue
cessfully. But to return.
All the great forms of religion insist up
on bodily cleanliness The hygienic sys-
tenn formulated by Moses can hardly be
improved upon with all the advancement
of modern science. The Koran is rigid as
to purity of the person. But the mind
must also be kept clean. If That could
be wholly done, the innocent look of
childhood might be always preserved to
us. Our faces would grow strong and
noble and reverend, without becoming,
as they now do, the outward evidence of
ignoble thoughts and purposes.
Man, like other animals, was made to
live the greater part of the time out of
doors. Out of-door exercise is essential
to vigor of body, and yigor of body is es-
sential to youthfulness of appearance.
1t is the indoor confinement of women
the constant breathing of overheated and
vitiated air and the necessary neglect of
natural forms of exercise-that makes
their beauty fade permanently. 1t is as
natural for girls to romp and play in the
open air as it is for colts to do so, and
the health and strength of the horse
would be vitality impaired by the hot
house brlnging-up which the girls have
to undergo before they attain to years OF
maturity.
Avarice is said to be the vice of age.
However that may be, it is the sordid
passion that quickest comforts the body
to Its own likeness. Perhaps this is ac-
counted for by reason of the multiplicity
of meanness that gather under the cloak
OF greed. 1t does not spare anybody, not
even its own victim. He pinches himself
as well as others. Premature age follows
upon undue greed for riches with as much
certainty as premature weakness over
takes the victim of consumption. Kind.
ness goes out of the eye, sympathy for.
sakes the heart, the voice hardens, the
whole aspect of the visage becomes me.
tallic.
Shakespeare makes Caesar saw that
towards die many times before theil
death. And so they do. And so do thou.
sands upon thousands of persons who
grant their lives away. They make
themselves old with imagined aches and
pains and anticipated distress. 1t is not
good to give way to megrims. Anticipa.
ton brings the misery that il looks for
If We think we are sick we shall be sick
If we anticipate decrepitude it will ru1
to meet us.
Borrowing trouble is another fruitful
cause of gray hairs and crowsfeet. And
this is weakness more common in wo
men than in men; for while a man ma,
be unduly nervous and worried about his
business and other affairs of import, his
wife Will fret over trivial affairs. She
worries about the dust on the furniture
the scorched or underdone bread, the
style of her bonnet or the fit of her gown
and these things make her old as surely
as do real troubles.
Lit us then keep clean minds in clear
bodies. Let us not take too much stool
In this worlds goods. Let us keep light
hearts, and interest ourselves in the hap
piness and enjoyment of others. By &c
doing, we may grow old without feelinl
old, and without looking old-that is, we
will grow old gracefully.-Philddelphio
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